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Uber to set up its own artificial intelligence lab Uber has aquired a machine learning company and set up a new division dedicated to research in AI.  Uber AI Labs will be based in San Francisco and its initial core will be formed ofthe team of 15 from recently acquired Geometric Intelligence, an AI research startup.  Machine learning will be central to Uber's mission of using tech to "negotiate the real world", the company said.  "It manifests in myriad ways, from determining an optimal route... [Lire la suite]

The Cultural Problem With Driverless Cars Earlier this year Tesla showed the public how its artificial intelligence is trained. The company’s fleet of consumer-driven cars constantly feeds camera footage back to California for its AI to shadow in the background. Tesla says this captures every possible situation and aspect of human behavior, especially the ones that go beyond our imagination. It’s an effective and scalable way to train AI, but it’s limited to where Teslas  drive around, creating a bias toward Western traffic... [Lire la suite]

For the 2d consecutive year the groupement ADAS will participate to the Autonomy show dedicated to urban mobility.  This exhibition will take place in Paris  t from the 16h to 17th of OCTOBER. To meet us :  Booth: A87  Sector: Autonomous vehicules       This event combines a trade show, a series of conferences and workshops, industry talks, and pitch sessions. The 2018 edition brought together more than 8,000 visitors, 150 speakers, 200 exhibitors, with 35 countries represented. ... [Lire la suite]

Autonomous vehicles are set to enable new forms of surveillance and oppression   Imagine a state-of-the-art driverless car zipping along a road with a disabled, 90-year-old passenger. A young mother with a toddler steps onto the road. The car must make a decision: drive into the mother and child and kill them, or swerve into a wall and kill the passenger. This is a variation of the trolley problem, a thought experiment which dominates academic and popular thinking about the ethics of driverless cars. The problem is that... [Lire la suite]

TESLA JUST LAUNCHED A CAR INSURANCE PROGRAM Ready For Launch Tesla has been teasing plans to enter the car insurance business in the United States for years — and now it’s finally ready to make the leap. “Starting today, we’re launching Tesla Insurance,” the company wrote in a blog post on Wednesday, later adding that “Tesla Insurance offers comprehensive coverage and claims management to support our customers in California, and it will expand to additional U.S. states in the future.” Money Saver As for why... [Lire la suite]

Automotive Artificial Intelligence   TOP VENDORS 1 NVIDIA CORPORATION NVIDIA DriveWorks software allows cars to receive over-the-air updates to add new features and capabilities throughout the life of a vehicle. The company invests mainly in R&D every year, with more  ... 2 INTEL CORPORATION Intel has designed Deep Learning Inference Accelerator (DLIA), an integrated hardware, software frameworks and libraries such as Intel Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks (MKL-DNN) and Caffe, which ... ... [Lire la suite]

Developing HMI Systems to Integrate ADAS Functions The reality of fully autonomous vehicles is drawing ever closer, and increasingly sophisticated driver assistance technologies are permeating the industry. Today’s ‘semi-autonomous’ cars feature a range of support functions such as lane assist and automatic braking, and the sector has become a hotbed of innovation as OEMs scramble to be the first to market with new technology. Equally, infotainment and connected services have also been subject to rapid development, with connectivity... [Lire la suite]

Asia Pacific Automotive Usage-Based Insurance (UBI) Market to 2027 The increasing demand for mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and various type of insurance premium policies are boosting the growth of the automotive UBI market. Moreover, the strategic partnerships among insurance companies and telematics companies are anticipated to propel automotive UBI market growth in the forecast period. In the last few years, the consumer behavior towards intercity and intracity transit has been transformed to a newer level. A significant... [Lire la suite]

GLOBAL TRENDS 2019 – VEHICLE TO EVERYTHING (V2X)  Connected technology is getting into more and more aspects of today’s living. After home automation, vehicle-to-everything is the next emerging trend to watch.   Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) is paving the way for connected cars and future fully automated driving. It is the future of the transportation communication system in which all vehicles and infrastructure interconnect with each other – traffic flow, motor vehicles, and other road users. V2X enables better... [Lire la suite]

Tesla Level 5: Autopilot Recently Elon Musk publicly stated that it will have Level 5 autonomy by the year 2020. He went further to state that all Tesla’s will be able to act as robo-taxis and will be able to generate up $30,000 in revenue for it’s owners. Musk claims that Tesla will have an extensive network of self-driving cars by 2020. He claims that Tesla can achieve all of this without technologies that every major competitor including Waymo and Cruise Automation employ. This include LIDAR sensors (laser radar) and... [Lire la suite]